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Mama Africa
Directed by
Mika Kaurismäki
2011
1h 32m
Documentary
,
Drama
,
and more
7.1
75%
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Documentary about Miriam Makeba.
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Where to Watch Mama Africa
Amazon Video
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Cast of Mama Africa
Miriam Makeba
Self (archive footage)
Harry Belafonte
Self (archive footage)
Kathleen Cleaver
Self
Nelson Mandela
Self (archive footage)
Kwame Ture
Self (archive footage)
Leopoldo Fleming
Self
Lorraine Gordon
Self
Mama Africa Ratings & Reviews
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
Kaurismaki presents the facts of Makeba's life in straightforward manner. As a result, his politics don't get in the way of his subject's.
Baret News
Kam Williams
A fitting tribute to a rare talent who dedicated her life to the liberation of oppressed people all over the world.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
A portrait of a woman ... whose dynamic range and earth-wide smile made the words and sounds pouring from her like a hand extended, a heart exposed, a story of the world made achingly real.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
Like many biographical documentaries, it resembles a lengthy highlight reel of crucial events from its subject's life, without much in the way of style or perspective.
Village Voice
Serena Donadoni
This queen deserves a monarch-sized portrait that fully showcases her part in the tumultuous social, political, and cultural movements that reshaped the world around her.
Film Journal International
André Hereford
Mama Africa, an intriguing but incomplete documentary portrait of Miriam Makeba, succeeds as a glowing introduction to her life and music.
Nashville Scene
Craig D. Lindsey
Mama Africa shows how Miriam Makeba was the antithesis of a diva. Right up until her death in 2008, she was a woman who cared too damn much.
Counterpunch.org
Louis Proyect
Worth watching as a compilation of the great singer's songs but even more worth watching as social history from the heyday of the civil rights movement to Black Power to the end of apartheid.
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